Campus Krems

Europe’s New Education Center

For elite universities throughout the world, the Campus is a byword for, and a focus of, student life. Since October 2005 Danube University Krems is also a campus university. Spanning an area of 34,000 square meters*, the campus is utilized jointly by IMC Fachhochschule Krems (a polytechnic institution), the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, the Austrian Film Gallery, and other institutions. It is equipped with very modern teaching and research facilities, comfortable accommodations, a varied range of food services, and an arthouse cinema. With 9,000 students and more than 600 staff members, Campus Krems offers the ideal environment for learning, research and living.

Approximately EUR 56.4m were invested in the new buildings which made the Krems campus into Austria’s largest construction project in the education sector. Today, 9,000 students of Danube University Krems and of IMC FH Krems, learn and research on the university site.

Transparent Architecture

The design for the new buildings is the creation of Architekt Dietmar Feichtinger, who places a new facade of steel, glass and aluminium opposite the industrial building from the previous century. The model submitted by the Paris-based Austrian architect convinced the jury through its transparent structure and the harmonious integration of the existing building.

Feichtinger explains his concept as follows: "We have taken pains to incorporate the existing typologies and transparent structures. We have given attention to important aspects such as preserving the possibility to experience the surrounding vineyards, and thus merging existing structures and extensions into a functioning whole.” His concept integrates the comb-shaped structure of the historical tobacco factory and brings the industrial building face to face with a new façade of steel, glass and aluminum. Thus, the old and the new joint to form a successful and harmonious unit.

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Service Center "campus west"

The Campus was extended further in August 2008: the service center "campus west" complements the existing services for students and University staff in an optimal way by providing a hotel, restaurants, a fashion house and a hairdresser, a wellness and fitness center, office and training rooms, and a car park.